A New Memoir I Know We Can All Relate To

June 08, 2008

A New Memoir I Know We Can All Relate To

Whether you grew up with a weight problem, or thinking you had one (which I think pretty much covers every adolescent girl at one time or another) you will find much to relate to in Stephanie Klein's raw and remarkably honest memoir Moose. "Moose" is what Stephanie was labelled at school as an overweight teen and in this, her second memoir, she recounts the summer she was sent to fat camp and how it shaped her body and her life. You can browse inside the book here, check out Stephanie's blog here and watch a video of her here. On her site she's also running a contest -- for a limited time, buy two copies and get a free print of one of her artistic photographs--which are currently on view at the Hotel Gansevoort in NYC. Enter the contest here. Find Stephanie on tour near you here, and here is the reading group guide.

I browsed inside this book on my lunch hour today, and it looks really great. I think I'm going to have to pick it up when I go to B&N this weekend. Thanks for all the links!10 June 2008, 19:43 PM

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